But let's all just laugh at the people who don't trust the official word on vaccines. It's much easier than confronting the fact that we are poisoning ourselves and our kids with vaccines.

Sure. I'll have a good laugh at you.

Also, , seeing as you both FAIL TOXICOLOGY FOREVER and DID NOT DO THE RESEARCH on the claim you just made.

that directed at me, or sid?

No, it was exclusively directed to AllAmericanGuy.

It was ment to say that he both failed toxicology and did not do the research at the same time.

Sorry, didn't mean to confuse you.

tankjr - The problem is that people will read that and take it as truth. Regardless of a troll or not, Doctor Google and consulting Doctor Jenny McCarthy, Ph.DoubleD have done more damage to the health of the United States than Vaccine Preventable Disease could have ever hoped to do.

platedlizard:Low level doses of sarin gas. Lovely. I was 11 at the time so I don't recall well, but was Iraq using old weapons or something? Or was this accidental while destroying captured weapons? Do they know?

Probably while we were doing search and destroy of chemical weapons stores.

platedlizard:Low level doses of sarin gas. Lovely. I was 11 at the time so I don't recall well, but was Iraq using old weapons or something? Or was this accidental while destroying captured weapons? Do they know?

No, we systematically destroyed Saddam's chemical stockpiles...in open burn pits and in some cases by simply dumping them on the ground.All done without even respirators, never mind full hazmat gear..

Persian Gulf War vet here- 82d Airborne Division, first 600 in country. Landed August 9, 1990, left right after the ground war ended in 1991.

They fed us pyrodostigimine bromide and told us it was to make our nerve agent antidote injectors more effective. They told us that when the chemical detection alarms went off that it was because they were placed too close to HMMWV exhaust.

I will never, as long as I live, forget that sound of hearing people shout "GAS GAS GAS".

I'm 41 years old. I can't sleep more than 4 hours a night- for the last 15 years, at least. I've suffered from severe depression, insomnia, muscle issues- I've been diagnosed with not one, not two, but THREE diseases classified as "rare diseases"- not counting the false diagnoses for shiat like tic doloreux (go Google it, I dare you- they call it "suicide disease") and pancreatitis.

I've never even bothered going to the VA or filing for any kind of disability because I've seen how badly this country farks everyone who tries. It simply isn't worth the effort it would take. We cost too much money and we don't look good on TV.

In the end, nobody will give a rat's ass because the vets of Desert Shield and Desert Storm aren't as visible, numerous or important to the media or the narrative as the more recent ones. So we'll be shuffled aside while the country ignores us. I've seen it coming for 20 years, and while I'm saddened to see my predictions come true, I'm not surprised in the least to see this country take another giant shiat on its veterans.

cretinbob:platedlizard: Low level doses of sarin gas. Lovely. I was 11 at the time so I don't recall well, but was Iraq using old weapons or something? Or was this accidental while destroying captured weapons? Do they know?

No, we systematically destroyed Saddam's chemical stockpiles...in open burn pits and in some cases by simply dumping them on the ground.All done without even respirators, never mind full hazmat gear..

Cyclometh:Persian Gulf War vet here- 82d Airborne Division, first 600 in country. Landed August 9, 1990, left right after the ground war ended in 1991.

They fed us pyrodostigimine bromide and told us it was to make our nerve agent antidote injectors more effective. They told us that when the chemical detection alarms went off that it was because they were placed too close to HMMWV exhaust.

I will never, as long as I live, forget that sound of hearing people shout "GAS GAS GAS".

I'm 41 years old. I can't sleep more than 4 hours a night- for the last 15 years, at least. I've suffered from severe depression, insomnia, muscle issues- I've been diagnosed with not one, not two, but THREE diseases classified as "rare diseases"- not counting the false diagnoses for shiat like tic doloreux (go Google it, I dare you- they call it "suicide disease") and pancreatitis.

I've never even bothered going to the VA or filing for any kind of disability because I've seen how badly this country farks everyone who tries. It simply isn't worth the effort it would take. We cost too much money and we don't look good on TV.

In the end, nobody will give a rat's ass because the vets of Desert Shield and Desert Storm aren't as visible, numerous or important to the media or the narrative as the more recent ones. So we'll be shuffled aside while the country ignores us. I've seen it coming for 20 years, and while I'm saddened to see my predictions come true, I'm not surprised in the least to see this country take another giant shiat on its veterans.

My brother served as a Marine during Desert Storm but he's still active duty now in the Army. Is there a narrative website for DS vets? Because that would be a start. Also, submitting this story to more news outlets. Who's the major DS vet advocacy group ?

It took doctors 20 years to figure this out? With all the advances and all of the soldiers available to study?

"Dr. Robert Haley, chief epidemiologist at UT Southwestern, and a cadre of clinicians and researchers, have struggled with the government for some 18 years for research funding and to have the syndrome recognized as a legitimate war injury," the paper notes.

Heley's team has not yet pinpointed the nature of the brain damage, which is estimated to affect 25% of the 700,000 Gulf War veterans, or worked out an effective treatment. He is confident, however, that "the research is really going to come to a head in the next six to 12 months."

Oh, so it was an actual conspiracy to keep it off the public radar for almost two decades. But that's impossible! Too many people would have to be involved. How could they pull something like that off right in plain site?

Cyclometh:Persian Gulf War vet here- 82d Airborne Division, first 600 in country. Landed August 9, 1990, left right after the ground war ended in 1991.

They fed us pyrodostigimine bromide and told us it was to make our nerve agent antidote injectors more effective. They told us that when the chemical detection alarms went off that it was because they were placed too close to HMMWV exhaust.

I will never, as long as I live, forget that sound of hearing people shout "GAS GAS GAS".

I'm 41 years old. I can't sleep more than 4 hours a night- for the last 15 years, at least. I've suffered from severe depression, insomnia, muscle issues- I've been diagnosed with not one, not two, but THREE diseases classified as "rare diseases"- not counting the false diagnoses for shiat like tic doloreux (go Google it, I dare you- they call it "suicide disease") and pancreatitis.

I've never even bothered going to the VA or filing for any kind of disability because I've seen how badly this country farks everyone who tries. It simply isn't worth the effort it would take. We cost too much money and we don't look good on TV.

In the end, nobody will give a rat's ass because the vets of Desert Shield and Desert Storm aren't as visible, numerous or important to the media or the narrative as the more recent ones. So we'll be shuffled aside while the country ignores us. I've seen it coming for 20 years, and while I'm saddened to see my predictions come true, I'm not surprised in the least to see this country take another giant shiat on its veterans.

Damn straight. I was in Grenada and I only got fifteen medals and a beej from a student who couldn't get into a US med school.

Cyclometh:I'm 41 years old. I can't sleep more than 4 hours a night- for the last 15 years, at least. I've suffered from severe depression, insomnia, muscle issues- I've been diagnosed with not one, not two, but THREE diseases classified as "rare diseases"- not counting the false diagnoses for shiat like tic doloreux (go Google it, I dare you- they call it "suicide disease") and pancreatitis.

They just tagged clusters of symptoms like that as being part of celiac disease last year.

Cyclometh:Persian Gulf War vet here- 82d Airborne Division, first 600 in country. Landed August 9, 1990, left right after the ground war ended in 1991.

They fed us pyrodostigimine bromide and told us it was to make our nerve agent antidote injectors more effective. They told us that when the chemical detection alarms went off that it was because they were placed too close to HMMWV exhaust.

I will never, as long as I live, forget that sound of hearing people shout "GAS GAS GAS".

I'm 41 years old. I can't sleep more than 4 hours a night- for the last 15 years, at least. I've suffered from severe depression, insomnia, muscle issues- I've been diagnosed with not one, not two, but THREE diseases classified as "rare diseases"- not counting the false diagnoses for shiat like tic doloreux (go Google it, I dare you- they call it "suicide disease") and pancreatitis.

I've never even bothered going to the VA or filing for any kind of disability because I've seen how badly this country farks everyone who tries. It simply isn't worth the effort it would take. We cost too much money and we don't look good on TV.

In the end, nobody will give a rat's ass because the vets of Desert Shield and Desert Storm aren't as visible, numerous or important to the media or the narrative as the more recent ones. So we'll be shuffled aside while the country ignores us. I've seen it coming for 20 years, and while I'm saddened to see my predictions come true, I'm not surprised in the least to see this country take another giant shiat on its veterans.

The problem is, the media and government and everyone else is there for you to throw you your welcome home parades, etc; but they aren't with you for the long haul. Just like everything else in this country, once they're done with you, you're yesterday's trash.

For what it's worth, thank you for your service. When reports of this condition first came out, I had no doubt, and have never had any doubt that it was a genuine medical condition resulting from something the soldiers were exposed to during the war. Whether it was vaccinations, medication, or nerve gas, I wouldn't guess.

My best friend from high school who served showed symptoms of the disorder, but he committed suicide in 1994, so I guess I'll never know for sure if he had it.

It's very clear, just ask Doug.Must blame the gas, because we still spill DU all over the planet.

In just three weeks of one war..."In a three week period of conflict in Iraq during 2003 it was estimated over 1000 tons of depleted uranium munitions were used."- Paul Brown, Gulf troops face tests for cancer guardian.co.uk 25 April 2003

DU has a halflife of 4.5 billion years. Do the math.

Then Google Depleted Uranium Babies.Or click This (new window) or This (new window)

I recall that they issued us generic looking blister packs of pills that were supposed to build up a tolerance for certain chemical weapons. We were told they contained low levels of an agent, and would make you feel like you had the flu or something. We were ORDERED to take them daily. They would get us in formation and visually verify we took our pill.

Those pills gave you the worst headaches imaginable - along the same lines as a Budweiser hangover. Everyone despised talking them. Fortunately for us, our command must have hated them as much as we did, and after a week or so they stopped verifying that we were taking the pills. Therefore, most of us lowly enlisted personnel simply stopped.

Years later I found that those pills were "experimental", right around the time that all these vets started complaining about Gulf War Syndrome. I was in a Signal unit, and our command is quite a bit more relaxed than, say, an Infantry battallion. I can only imagine those hard-core grunts taking those pills every day for a couple of months.

I would have to believe that those pills would have a lot more to so with it than some phantom release of an actual chemical weapon that no one ever detected, or the idea that it may be related to exposure to depleted uranium.

Knew a guy who served in Vietnam. His exposure to agent orange was visible every day I worked with him. I asked him why he even worked and he told me that the VA treated him like shiat, and refused to diagnose him as ever having been exposed. The government treats our troops like this because if they didn't they would have to pay tons for damages. So they deny everything and in the end it quietly goes away.

LeglessDog:skantea: LeglessDog: Oh man, this is really going to conflict with all the people still insisting Saddam didn't have any WMDs . . . how will they perpetually attempt to persecute W without that ammo?

skantea:LeglessDog: skantea: LeglessDog: Oh man, this is really going to conflict with all the people still insisting Saddam didn't have any WMDs . . . how will they perpetually attempt to persecute W without that ammo?

I work for VA and we service connect veterans for Gulf War Syndrome symptoms daily. If you need some information concerning a claim for Gulf War syndrome or any other service connection (Agent Orange, environmental hazards, noise exposure) then I'll be happy to help you in the ways that I can. My e-mail is in profile.

Which means it's perfectly fine radiation wise you moron, in fact you've got a decent bunch of the plain radioactive uranium in you right now. We all do.

DU isn't nasty because it's radioactive, it's nasty because it's a heavy metal and a rather unpleasant one at that. Pure old fashion chemistry nasty. Of course, you're too stupid to comprehend that statement so you just run around screaming "radioactive, evil, radioactive, evil" like a modern day version of a tribal witch burner.